Scott Young recently returned from a year abroad and wrote Up “Seven Principles of Learning Better From Cognitive Science” which is a review/summary of the book “Why Don’t Students Like School?” by Daniel Willingham. Here are the 7 Principles:

Factual knowledge precedes skill.

Memory is the residue of thought.

We understand new things in the context of what we already know.

Proficiency requires practice.

Cognition is fundamentally different early and late in training.

People are more alike than different in how we learn.

Intelligence can be changed through sustained hard work.

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